A Study on the Connection of History and Spatial Meaning in the Great Matzu Temple of Tainan

• Main Authors: Shao-chou Mao, 毛紹周
• Other Authors: Kuan-chu Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96337811430640163173

碩士 === 南華大學 === 環境與藝術研究所 === 93 === 　　The Great Matzu Temple of Tainan, also known as Yi Yuan Tzu Ting, was the grand mansion of the Lord Ning Jing of Ming dynasty Ju Shu Quei. In the year 22 of Kang Shi in Ching dynasty (1683 AC), She Lang and his soldiers invaded Taiwan. Ning Jing Wang committed suicide for his country and thereafter his mansion was changed into Matzu Temple which had been seeing more than three hundred years of eventful historic time from the Ming, Great Ching Japan to Ming Quo. 　 　　In these three hundred years, historic events and characters related to the Great Matzu Temple and the eternal spiritual life remain in some of the space of the Great Matzu Temple’s and continue to have influence on the royal disciples of the Great Matzu Temple generation after generation. As prosperousness slowly passed, how to revitalize the spiritual life of the disciples of the Great Matzu Temple over the generations, to re-realize living world of human beings and the relationship between human beings and space, history and society are the key points of this thesis research. Although quite a few of spectacular stories have been lost or been misunderstood, by attempting to profoundly understand the spatial meaning of this sacred space, trying to describe the Great Matzu Temple as a creative combination and extension as much as possible, using the “real” firstspace point of view and through “imagine” space to explain the realistic of the secondspace, and utilizing these real-and-imagined of multi characteristics to interpret the heteropia space, and interpreting bigoted opinions which severely hinder the development of the Great Matzu Temple as well. 　 　　This thesis contains three sessions. First, this article introduces and confirms the construction year of this building and historic background and characters. Then, this article tried to make a faithful and trusty psychological evaluation on the main characters extended from the path of historic renovation. This study also discusses the connection between these characters and the spatial spirit of the Great Matzu Temple. IN addition, this research displays a positional mark off between the historic process of the Great Matzu Temple and hegemonic history of the country in order to demonstrate time and spatial mark off of the historic phases from the point of view of spatial study. 　 　　Second, across the varied angle of views, this article discusses the main deities of the Great Matzu Temple in the literature, aesthetics, philosophy, history and religion aspects. 　　 　　This aiticle also discovers the necessities and reasons for these deities existing in the space of the Great Matzu Temple and the spatial, historic and social meanings of the related events and stories developing from them.